Buy Akaneiro: Demon Hunters w/ Starter Pack

May 12

Dear Players,
Just a quick reminder: We still maintain a developer on Akaneiro for support and maintenance. If you find a bug in the game or encounter any sort of problem, please submit a support ticket here:

As of May, 2015 we are also working on adding Trading Cards and Achievements to Akaneiro. We expect to have all that content in and functioning by mid-June, 2015.

There has been no change in the status of larger development for the project. Our team continues focusing most of their limited resources on new titles, in the hopes of finding some success and stability. Once that goal is achieved, we hope to return to Akaneiro and resume full development.

To the Trolls,
If you've come to this discussion area to spout BS about Akaneiro being "dead," please, don't.

It's not helpful or accurate in the least. Unlike 99% of released games in the world, we ARE maintaining staff dedicated to continued support and improvements of this title. We ARE maintaining the servers, despite the fact that the game doesn't generated enough income every month to cover the cost of those servers.

Please, don't be a jerk about this. There are plenty of properly abandoned titles on Steam for you to go take cheap shots at.

Reviews

“There's life in the movements of the characters on the screen and real appeal in the combat even though it's from the dungeon-grinder school that I'm normally very fatigued by.”
– Massively by Joystiq

“Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is a free to play action online RPG from Shanghai-based Spicy Horse. The game takes on the mix of Little Red Riding Hood – a European fairy tale- and The Lost Wolves of Japan -a book about Japanese history, literature and folklore.”
8.9/10 – MMOHUT

“Akaneiro provides players with a free to play ARPG of depth, blended seamlessly with the speed and intensity of a pure action title.”
3/5 – Bloody Disgusting

Starter Pack

Akaneiro is available for FREE on other platforms (like SpicyWorld and Kongregate), but not on Steam. Why?

On Steam we offer the game for sale with a Starter Pack that includes items and currency worth much more than the purchase price. If you don't wish to spend money to try Akaneiro, head over to a platform where it's offered for free. You can then decide for yourself if paying for it here on Steam in order to access the Starter Pack is worthwhile.

Planned Key Features:

Materials: June will see the introduction of material drops from enemies and significant drops from the Area bosses, with the chance and quality increasing with the difficulty of the Mission.

Crafting: With Materials dropping that means the Crafting vendor will open his doors, allowing players to upgrade the Element, Enchant and Gem attributes on the items.

More Areas: The Melon Fields (Area 7) will be releasing in the coming month with following planned content updates to include Temple Depths (Area 8), Survival Pits (horde style waves), as well as the Raid missions especially created for multiplayer.

Multiplayer: We have begun working on the multiplayer aspect of the game with internal testing expected in July.

Social: In-game Chat and Leaderboards to compare with the other Hunters out there.

Abilities and Masteries: More Abilities and Masteries to train based off of your base Discipline stats. Choosing your Discipline stats on level up will define your character in more meaningful ways.

Helpers: Easy access and use food and drink plus updates to Spirit Helpers through adding a leveling system to increase their effects on the player once summoned.

New Mission Types and Enemies: Expanding existing areas with new mission types over the next coming months to create a more broad experience for the player.

Achievements: Track your progress and show off your achievements with pride

Everyone has that "one game". The game they regret buying or preordering. Some people have more than one. This game is "that one game" for many people. Spicy Horse has essentially abandoned the development of this game (they posted that the development team has been reduced to 2 members), leaving out many features such as Co-op (They have been claiming that multiplayer will be implemented since 2011), yet still left in the general chat box that connects to no one. They also mentioned that even though this game was a complete financial flop, they will leave the servers open to people (As even though there is no multiplayer, you must still log into their servers to actually play), which they claim they are "Taking one for the team" and losing money keeping the servers open for the handful of folks who still play. Honestly, I figure that if they closed the servers there would have been a much larger backlash from people still waiting for this game to enter its full state.

They even had the audacity to leave in their Cash Shop along with the cosmetic items that cost real money. I am aware that some people do still play this game, but the original concept of this game has been completly gutted and trimmed into a shell of what it was promised to do upon initial release

Let's be fast : The gameplay is pure garbage, it's a very bad Hack n'Slash. Don't waste your time and your money on it. Do not be blinded by the "not so bad artistic touch" and run away from this ♥♥♥♥.

Over a year later and it's still low quality and incomplete. Still no multiplayer, still buggy as hell, and still boring. Not to mention it runs on the free-2-play model but charges you money to buy it anyway because the developers are absolute scumbags.